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Autographed Copy of John Feffer’s Frostlands

It’s 2051 and Arcadia is under attack. As the stand-alone sequel to Splinterlands begins, the sustainable compound in what was once Vermont is on high alert – and it only gets more dramatic from there, as a daunting future unfolds on a planet under siege. As novelist Ariel Dorfman writes, “"By taking us on a cautionary journey into a future planetary collapse…, John Feffer forces us to look deeply at our own society’s blindness to ecological apocalypse and greed. But the novel’s enchantment goes beyond dystopia: the quest for salvation depends on a crusty female octogenarian who would make Wonder Woman salivate with envy." Donate $100.00 or more ($125 if you live outside the U.S.), and you can choose to receive a personalized, autographed copy of the paperback.

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Autographed Copy of Tom Engelhardt’s A Nation Unmade by War

As Tom Engelhardt argues, despite having a more massive, technologically advanced, and better-funded military than any other power on the planet, in the last decade and a half of constant war, the United States has won nothing. Its unending wars, in fact, have only contributed to a world growing more chaotic by the second. From its founding, the United States has been a nation made by wars. Engelhardt ponders whether in this century, its citizenry and government will be unmade by them. Noam Chomsky calls it, “Incisive, lucid, and brutally informative." Andrew Bacevich says, “Engelhardt at his very best… impassioned, and funny even, in a time of great darkness." Donate $100.00 or more ($125 if you live outside the U.S.), and you can choose to receive a personalized, autographed copy of the paperback.
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Robert Lipsyte’s classic, SportsWorld: An American Dreamland, has just been reissued (with a new introduction). In a recent New Yorker review, Ian Crouch hailed it this way: “The anger voiced by a segment of American sports fandom this past year -- directed at, among other targets, players kneeling during the national anthem to protest inequality and police brutality -- reminded me of a line from the sportswriter Robert Lipsyte: ‘the fans are getting meaner every day.’ He wrote this in 1975, in SportsWorld, a semi-Marxist critique of American athletic culture that remains fresh and essential today” Donate $100.00 or more ($125 if you live outside the U.S.), and you can choose to receive a personalized, autographed copy of the paperback.

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Prize-winning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America’s rise as a world power from the 1890s through the Cold War and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century through a fusion of cyberwar, space warfare, trade pacts, and military alliances. McCoy then analyzes the marquee instruments of U.S. hegemony: covert intervention, client elites, psychological torture, and worldwide surveillance, boldly laying out a series of scenarios that could lead to the end of Washington’s world domination by 2030. Of the book Andrew Bacevich says, “This is history with profound relevance to events that are unfolding before our eyes.” Donate $100.00 or more ($125 if you live outside the U.S.), and you can choose to receive a personalized, autographed copy of the paperback.

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Authographed Copy of John Feffer's Splinterlands

Part Field Notes from a Catastrophe, part 1984, part World War Z, John Feffer's striking new dystopian novel, takes us deep into the battered, shattered world of 2050. The European Union has broken apart. Multiethnic great powers like Russia and China have shriveled. America's global military footprint has virtually disappeared and the United States remains united in name only. Nationalism has proven the century's most enduring force as ever-rising global temperatures have supercharged each-against-all competition and conflict among the now 300-plus members of an increasingly feeble United Nations. Mike Davis says: “John Feffer is our twenty-first-century Jack London and, like the latter’s Iron Heel, Splinterlands is a vivid, suspenseful warning about the ultimate incompatibility of capitalism and human survival.” Donate $100.00 or more ($125 if you live outside the U.S.), and you can choose to receive a personalized, autographed copy of the paperback.

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Autographed Copy of Nick Turse's Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead: War and Survival in South Sudan

A dramatic story of men and women trapped in the grip of war, this book is modern crisis reporting at its best. Adam Hochschild calls it “searing reporting”; Noam Chomsky, “a vivid, gripping account of inhuman cruelty.” For six weeks in 2015, award-winning journalist Nick Turse traveled on foot as well as by car, SUV, and helicopter around war-torn South Sudan talking to military officers and child soldiers, United Nations officials and internally displaced people whose lives had been blown apart by a ceaseless conflict there. In fast-paced, dramatic fashion, he reveals the harsh reality of modern warfare in the developing world and the ways people manage to survive the unimaginable. Donate $100.00 or more ($125 if you live outside the U.S.), and you can choose to receive a personalized, autographed copy of the hardcover. The tax-deductible portion of your donation will be your gift total minus 3% for "goods and services."
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Autographed copy of America’s Nuremberg: The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post-9/11 War Crimes by Rebecca Gordon

Especially in this Trumpian moment, few subjects are more hotly debated than the extreme measures that our government took after 9/11 in the name of national security: torture, extraordinary rendition, drone assassinations, secret detention centers (or “black sites”), massive surveillance of citizens. But while the press occasionally exposes the dark side of the war on terror and congressional investigators sometimes raise alarms about the abuses committed, no high U.S. official has been prosecuted for these violations – which are generally considered war crimes. This is a must-read look at the crimes top American officials oversaw and why they deserve to be brought to court for them. Donate $100.00 or more ($125 if you live outside the U.S.), and you can choose to receive a personalized, autographed copy of the hardcover. The tax-deductible portion of your donation will be your gift total minus 3% for "goods and services."

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Autographed copy of American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity

How did the Vietnam War change the way we think of ourselves as a people and a nation, how has it shaped us from the 1950s to late last night? Christian G. Appy, author of the widely praised oral history of the Vietnam War Patriots, now examines the relationship between the war’s realities and myths and its impact on our national identity, conscience, pride, shame, popular culture, and postwar foreign policy. Drawing on a vast variety of sources from movies, songs, and novels to official documents, media coverage, and contemporary commentary, Appy offers an original interpretation of the war and its far-reaching consequences which adds up to a completely fresh account of the meaning of the Vietnam War.
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Autographed copy of Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single Superpower World

In 1964, a book entitled The Invisible Government shocked Americans with its revelations of a growing world of intelligence agencies playing fast and loose around the planet, a secret government lodged inside the one they knew that even the president didn't fully control. Almost half a century later, everything about that "invisible government" has grown vastly larger, more disturbing, and far more visible. In his new book, Tom Engelhardt takes in something new under the sun: what is no longer, as in the 1960s, a national security state, but a global security one, fighting secret wars that have turned the president into an assassin-in-chief. This is a powerful survey of a democracy of the wealthy that your grandparents wouldn't have recognized. Donate $100.00 or more ($125 if you live outside the U.S.), and you can choose to receive a personalized, autographed copy of the hardcover. The tax-deductible portion of your donation will be your gift total minus 3% for "goods and services."

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Autographed copy of Kill Anything That Moves by Nick Turse

Devastating and definitive, the just-published paperback of Kill Anything That Moves, with a new afterword, finally brings us face-to-face with the truth of a war that haunts Americans to this day. Former Vietnam reporter Jonathan Schell writes, “A tour de force of reporting and research: the first comprehensive portrait, written with dignity and skill, of what American forces actually were doing in Vietnam.” Donate $100.00 or more ($125 if you live outside the U.S.), and you can choose to receive a personalized, autographed copy of the hardcover. The tax-deductible portion of your donation will be your gift total minus 3% for "goods and services."

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Autographed copy of Worth Fighting For: An Army Ranger’s Journey Out of the Military and Across America

Pat Tillman's death by friendly fire was covered up just days before his comrade Rory Fanning -- who served in the same unit as Tillman -- left the Army Rangers as a conscientious objector. Disquieted by his tours in Afghanistan, Fanning sets out to honor Tillman's legacy by crossing the United States on foot. Told with page-turning style, humor, and warmth, Fanning’s Worth Fighting For explores the emotional and social consequences of rejecting the mission of one of the most elite fighting forces in the world. The book is a genuine antiwar American odyssey. Donate $100.00 or more ($125 if you live outside the U.S.), and you can choose to receive a personalized, autographed copy of the hardcover. The tax-deductible portion of your donation will be your gift total minus 3% for "goods and services."

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Autographed copy of Tom Engelhardt's book, The United States of Fear (Paperback)

A startling tale of how fear was profitably shot into the national bloodstream, how the country -- gripped by terror fantasies -- was locked down, and how a brain-dead Washington elite fiddled while America quietly burned. Donate $75.00 or more, and you can choose to receive an autographed copy of The United States of Fear. The tax-deductible portion of your donation will be your gift total minus 3% for "goods and services."

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Autographed copy of The End of Victory Culture by Tom Engelhardt

Autographed copy of The End of Victory Culture, Tom Engelhardt’s widely hailed idiosyncratic history of the Cold War that Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian John Dower called “an extraordinarily original work that places postwar American history in an entirely new perspective,” and that Studs Terkel called “as powerful as a Joe Louis jab to the solar plexus.” Donate $100.00 or more ($125 if you live outside the U.S.), and you can choose to receive a personalized, autographed copy of the paperback. The tax-deductible portion of your donation will be your gift total minus 3% for "goods and services."

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